“And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.”
The forgiveness petition uniquely links divine forgiveness to human forgiveness with the causal conjunction as — we receive the forgiveness we extend, and the failure to forgive blocks the reception of forgiveness. This is not a commercial transaction but a relational logic: the community that lives under forgiveness must live in forgiveness, and those who refuse forgiveness have placed themselves outside the dynamic they are requesting.
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